News: Hoopes Prize!

bioblitz shieldFarrell Lab undergraduate Adam Clark wins the Hoopes Prize!

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Prof. Farrell co-authors new paper which answers longstanding scientific question about cause of tropics' stunning biodiversity. More

Current research

News pictureCurrent research extends the evolution of insect-plant interactions to other trophic levels through a broad collaboration in the beetle Tree of Life project.

A new research dimension in the lab concerns the acoustic signals produced for mating and territory defense. More

Choosing a likelihood model



We generally use David Posada's program ModelTest to determine the appropriate likelihood model. This consists of a batch file which has PAUP compute the likelihood score of a tree under various models and a program which computes the likelihood ratio test and the AIC criterion.